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Scottish Dance groups in Europe

This page contains Scottish Dance groups I know of in Europe,
together with links to their home pages if I know of them. For
some groups I only have their homepage link. I have marked these with "(link only)".
If I have missed
your favourite group out, I'd love to know so I can add them to
this page.

You might also like Anselm Lingnau's
World SCD map.
Note I can claim no credit (or blame) for this.

If you can't find the group you are looking for here, it is probably worth checking
out the Celtic
Circle listing as well.

Since anyone anywhere in the world can read this page, I have not included
contact addresses or telephone numbers unless I have specifically been given permission. Please
contact me
if you want contact information.

The groups are arranged by country and then in alphabetical order of location, and are:

Czech Republic

SCD Club - Prague was established to promote Scottish Country
Dancing in Praha (Czech Republic). We organize SCD socials every
first Thursday in a month. Just come and don´t forget to bring a
smile and a sense of fun!

Who or what are we? It`s very simple. If you like Scottish music and
dancing, having a blether or just watching people enjoying themselves, then that is who and
what we are.

We are a group of resident Scots promoting Scottish cultural and social
evenings in and around Munich. We have ceilidhs, hill walks, sports days and our two gala
evenings: the St. Andrew's Dinner Dance and of course the Burns Supper.

Why not come along and find out for yourseleves -
I`m sure you won`t regret it!

Hungary

Republic of Ireland

We meet most Thursday evenings from early September - late June at 8:15pm in the
hall of York Road Presbyterian Church, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. We are lucky
enough to have class musicians, and teaching is shared between 3 dancers.

The Florence Scottish Association of Florence meets once a month on Saturdays
from 20:30 to 23:00 at the DLF in via Paisiello 131, Florence. Occasional extra
dates, such as the St. Andrews Ball and Robert Burn's Night, are also planned.
The teacher and dance director is Donald Francis.

We hold 10 week courses in Scottish Country Dancing (all levels) in the Autumn (September to November)
leading up to our St Andrew’s Night, in the Winter (January-March), also to prepare for our Burns Night,
and in the Spring/early summer. We do not meet in June-August. We meet at All Saints Church, Via
Solferino 17, Milan on Monday evenings during courses, which generally end with a ceilidh.

The Association Societa' di Danza, directed by Fabio Mollica, has regular
courses of scottish country dances and XIX Century dances in several
cities, with various teachers, and is affiliated to the RSCDS.
Several balls and events are organized during the year.
The Societa' di Danza organizes an Easter School and a Summer School, more
information can be found at www.societadidanza.it/stage.html

The Thistle Club in Eindhoven meet on Wednesdays between 20:30 and 22:45 in
De Landing, Tarwelaan 109, Eindhoven, (Country) and on Mondays between 20:30
and 22:30 in De Werf, v.d. Werffstraat 14, Eindhoven (alternately Country
and Highland). The teachers for the Country classes are Petra Siemons & Rik
de Vroome; for Highland classes Rik de Vroome.

The St Andrews Society of the Netherlands' Reel Club meets every Friday from
September - June in Cultureel Centrum Warenar, Kerkstraat, Wassenaar. The
main event in the Society's year is the St. Andrew's Ball in November.
Non-members are very welcome to attend all events.

Norway

Poland

Scottish dancing arrived to Poland 10 years ago at the time when folk culture from various
regions of the world gained popularity. SCD and highland Scottish dancing demonstrations
always attract a great number of viewers, some of them joined Scottish dancing classes.
ISTA School Dance in co-operation with teachers being RSCDS members offers Scottish dancing
classes, weekend workshops and organises ceilidhs. Dancers from Poland as well as foreign
visitors are always most welcome to join our classes and dance with us elegant strathspeys,
dynamic reels and jigs and, the most fit can dance also highland dancing.

Would you like to know more about Scottish dancing in Poland? Would you like to join our
classes, workshops or ceilidh? Contact us at:

Our
mission is to popularise Scottish dancing in Poland, thus we have articles
on Scottish dancing and on its history (in Polish only for the time
being). These articles, as we believe, can be of a great help to Poles
looking for information about Scottish Dancing.

Celtica-SCD, Cracow, Poland

Celtica-SCD branches out from an association that re-enacts Celtic culture.
Apart from being enamoured by the ancient Celts, we were connected by our
love of dance. We have chosen Scottish Country Dancing, because all the
pleasure from dancing for us comes not from solo shows but from dancing
together with other people who are as passionate about it as we are. The
group was created in May 2008 and at present it has 15 members. We are
not only interested in dance, but also in the historical backdrop of the
dance. For that reason we try to focus on 18th century and women’s dresses
are a testimony to that, as well as the fact that most of the dances that
are in our repertoire come from the end of 18th or the beginning of the
19th century. In fall 2008 we are starting a course of open SCD workshops.
We are also planning to organise a number of events including social dances
and Scottish balls.

In summer 2014, Humpty-Dumpty Dance School was reorganized. Humpty-Dumpty Scottish group
decided to continue its mission as an independent school called Schiehallion. Nadezhda Alkimovich
and Sergey Kargapoltsev head the new school.

Slovakia

Sillmarion - dance group in Bratislava
which does a range of different dance styles, amongst them historical and country-dances
of many nations. We mostly concentrate on country & western dancing and
Scottish dancing. We have both our own choreographies and traditional
dances.
(link only)

If you have any other societies you would like me to include here, please
mail me with a description.
Please also get in touch if you disagree with any of the descriptions already
here, and offer your view of the societies. If you want me to publish your
view, however, you must give me permission to attribute it to you.
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